Cross-Functional Engineer, Staff

Company: Qualcomm Canada ULC Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Analog Mixed Signal Design General Summary: Qualcomm builds industry-leading wired connectivity solutions that enable data to travel faster, more reliably, and with higher performance at lower power. Our technology is embedded in leading-edge semiconductors built to power global network and computer systems. It is an essential part of the core infrastructure enabling next generation services in data centers, artificial intelligence, 5G wireless infrastructure, data networking, autonomous vehicles, and solid-state storage. Replacement Position Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering with 2+ years of experience with analog or mixed-signal integrated circuit design in nanometer planar CMOS or FinFET and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience. OR Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or related field and 4+ years of ASIC design, verification, or related work experience. OR PhD in Electrical Engineering or related field and 2+ of years ASIC design, verification, or related work experience. • 2+ years of experience using one or more design tools (e.g., CADENCE, SPICE, MATLAB, and/or Verilog/VHDL). Cross-Functional Engineer We are seeking a highly skilled Cross-Functional Engineer to join our team, focusing on high-speed electrical wireline systems (e.g. SerDes). The successful candidate will play a critical role in designing, analyzing, and optimizing high-performance interconnects, ensuring accurate analog modelling, mixed-signal system verification, analog calibration, and power estimation working collaboratively with digital verification, firmware, and silicon validation engineers for high-speed SerDes designs. We welcome candidates at various experience levels for this role. Our offers will align with the level during the interview assessment. What You’ll Do           Analog and mixed-signal modeling : Oversee the development and verification of behavioral models for analog and mixed-signal circuits to support design and system-level simulations Analog calibration : Collaborate with analog design, digital design, and firmware teams to define and implement calibration algorithms for analog/mixed-signal blocks, optimizing performance and yield Analog verification : Simulate analog subsystems at higher levels of abstraction to confirm functionality as well as confirm other design characteristics (power, aging performance, EMIR, etc.) System verification : Work closely with digital verification and firmware engineers to ensure proper interaction between analog, digital, and firmware components including register programming, initialization sequences, power-up calibration, power state changes, and data rate changes Silicon validation support : Collaborate with silicon validation engineers to support silicon bring-up activities and to correlate pre-silicon models with post-silicon measurements, improving model accuracy and debugging issues Power Estimation : Collaborate with analog and digital program leads to develop and maintain power models that accurately track power dissipation across data rate, operating conditions, and power states of high-speed SerDes, and then correlate post-silicon measurements with these power model predicted results Technical mentorship : Guide and mentor engineers in analog behavioral modeling, mixed-signal verification techniques, calibration approaches, and power estimation fostering innovation and technical excellence    What You’ll Need Strong background in high-speed (106Gbps and higher) SerDes architecture, modelling, and verification Proficiency in SystemVerilog and behavioural modeling techniques for analog and mixed-signal designs Knowledge of calibration algorithms, and equalization techniques for SerDes Previous experience in either high-speed analog / mixed-signal design or modelling, analog/mixed-signal or digital verification, or